Troubles with meth: contamination risks

A Monument home was surrounded and part of a street was closed Thursday night. Investigators were there for almost 36 hours. A probation officer found a body and an active meth lab Wednesday morning. We're told the man had no visible injury and there were no signs of foul play.

An autopsy will determine his cause of death. Investigators then were trying to clean up the meth lab.When police find a meth lab, there are several possibilities of contamination for neighbors and the home itself.

MONUMENT, Colo. -

A Monument home was surrounded and part of a street was closed Thursday night. Investigators were there for almost 36 hours. A probation officer found a body and an active meth lab Wednesday morning. We're told the man had no visible injury and there were no signs of foul play.

An autopsy will determine his cause of death. Investigators then were trying to clean up the meth lab.

When police find a meth lab, there are several possibilities of contamination for neighbors and the home itself.

Neighbors here shouldn't panic necessarily, but they are at risk for contamination if in fact someone was making meth in their neighborhood.

Residents in this Monument neighborhood wondered Thursday how a meth lab ended up on their street.

“Had no clue as to what was going on or what had happened, until yesterday morning when we came out and the tape was on the property,” said Lowell Pierce.

However, there are signs neighbors could have suspected something was going on.

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